This is Scientific American 60 Seconds Science. I'm Christine Herman. Got a minute? The ability of distinguish between sounds of varying pitch makes people capable of producing and understand speech and music. And the way we are able to process pitch

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The Unnatural World is the title of a new book by former Scientific American environment editor David Biello. The subtitle: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earths Newest Age. And that age has been dubbed the Anthropocenein which humanity (anthro)

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Perhaps youve seen the famous TED talk about so-called power poses. It encouraged viewers to change the course of their lives by assuming what are thought of as dominant postures. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space. You're b

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Nobel in Chemistry for Seeing Biomolecules in Action 诺贝尔化学奖微化分子结构 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Hendersonfor

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Individuals' Blood Glucose Levels after Meals May Be Predictable预测血糖 High blood sugar levels are a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Doctors today have only general dietary recommendations for how to control those levels, because theres no rea

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When we humans talk to other humans, the sounds we make all have very specific meanings. When I say apple you immediately imagine something that has the characteristics of an apple. Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. And

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Which Came First: The Proboscis or the Flower? To learn about the plant life of long ago, scientists dig through layers of the Earth, looking for fossil clues. Like bits of fossilized pollen, or spores.And that's where I come in. Timo van Eldijk (EL-

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In 1988, the US government instituted a ban on federal funding on Needle Exchange Programs for peole inject Street Drugs.Here is a quote from the article in the July 1998 issue of Scientific American on HIV prevention.Access to clean needles can help

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After Connecticut passed a law requiring gun background checks and gun safety courses, gun deaths decreased by forty percent. Forty percent. Prsident Obama today. In his announcement that he would take executive action to require more gun sellers to

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It may not be the most melodious bit of birdsong youll ever encounter. [Titmouse alarm call]. But this particular call, issued by a tufted titmouse, conveys important information about the presence of potential predators. But only if other birds can

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Psychologist Saho Takagi, a graduate student at Kyoto University in Japan, strolls into one of Japan's many cat cafes. These establishments allow customers to pay an hourly fee for the chance to cuddle some cats. They're popular in Japan because so m

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The Explorers Club in New York Citywhose members have included Neil Armstrong, Teddy Roosevelt, and the first men to reach both the North and South poleshas a reputation for serving exotic entrees, like fried tarantula and goats eyeballs. In 1951 the

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Lady Gaga's fake finger now and justin timberlake's partly even french toast have fetched big box auction because the seemingly worthless items once belonged to a celebrity. Now a study found that the price depend on how much contact the celebrity ha

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Everybody loves chimpsespecially their endearing entreaties. Scientists, too, love to listen to chimps chat. And they enjoy sharing these colorful commentaries with their colleagues. Now, anyone with a hankering for primate prattle can listen in. Bec

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When you hear the word mutation, you may think of something destructive, or of Marvels X-Men. But some mutationswhich are just differences in DNAcan be historic. Take, for example, a genetic sequence found in the vast majority of people from Tibet. M

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This Scientific American 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute? To a farmer, good insects pollinate, and bad insects decimate. But they often had a tough time knowing which flying creatures were invading their crops. Now eavesdropping r

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Americans are slowly crawling out of recession while averages are earning more. Researchers wonder how the increased income effect charitable giving. So they dove to IS data from 2006 to 2012. They broke the data down by state county Metropolis town

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